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Fat, fibre and cancer risk in African Americans and rural Africans.

ABSTRACT: Rates of colon cancer are much higher in African Americans (65:100,000) than in rural South Africans (<5:100,000). The higher rates are associated with higher animal protein and fat, and lower fibre consumption, higher colonic secondary bile acids, lower colonic short-chain fatty acid quantities and higher mucosal proliferative biomarkers of cancer risk in otherwise healthy middle-aged volunteers. Here we investigate further the role of fat and fibre in this association. We performed 2-week food exchanges in subjects from the same populations, where African Americans were fed a high-fibre, low-fat African-style diet and rural Africans a high-fat, low-fibre western-style diet, under close supervision. In comparison with their usual diets, the food changes resulted in remarkable reciprocal changes in mucosal biomarkers of cancer risk and in aspects of the microbiota and metabolome known to affect cancer risk, best illustrated by increased saccharolytic fermentation and butyrogenesis, and suppressed secondary bile acid synthesis in the African Americans.

SUBMITTER: O'Keefe SJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4415091 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Fat, fibre and cancer risk in African Americans and rural Africans.

O'Keefe Stephen J D SJ Li Jia V JV Lahti Leo L Ou Junhai J Carbonero Franck F Mohammed Khaled K Posma Joram M JM Kinross James J Wahl Elaine E Ruder Elizabeth E Vipperla Kishore K Naidoo Vasudevan V Mtshali Lungile L Tims Sebastian S Puylaert Philippe G B PG DeLany James J Krasinskas Alyssa A Benefiel Ann C AC Kaseb Hatem O HO Newton Keith K Nicholson Jeremy K JK de Vos Willem M WM Gaskins H Rex HR Zoetendal Erwin G EG

Nature communications 20150428

Rates of colon cancer are much higher in African Americans (65:100,000) than in rural South Africans (<5:100,000). The higher rates are associated with higher animal protein and fat, and lower fibre consumption, higher colonic secondary bile acids, lower colonic short-chain fatty acid quantities and higher mucosal proliferative biomarkers of cancer risk in otherwise healthy middle-aged volunteers. Here we investigate further the role of fat and fibre in this association. We performed 2-week food ...[more]

PMID: 25919227

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